Example sentences of "by putting [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Cardinal Stuart , ’ wrote the British minister in Florence to Horace Walpole , ‘ by putting on the cowle [ i.e. cardinal 's hat ] has done more to extinguish his party than would have been effected by putting to death many thousand of deluded followers . ’
2 We then begin by putting on the ‘ bottles ’ ( small , tightly tied bundles , somewhat resembling a bottle in shape ) to form a new eave line .
3 On receipt of the returned summons you or your agent must now complete the service copy of the summons by putting in the return day and calling day and then arranging for it to be served on your debtor .
4 The fact of the conviction can be proved just by putting in the certificate from the convicting court .
5 Making the complex variable purely imaginary by putting in the Laplace transform means that the signal is again being analysed into just sine and cosine waves .
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